The dynamic ups and downs of genome size evolution in Brassicaceae

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-98

  Lysak, Martin A ^a   Koch, Marcus A ^b   Beaulieu, Jeremy M ^c   Meister, Armin ^d   Leitch, Ilia J ^e  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^e JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Brassicaceae; Chromosomes; Cruciferae; Genome size evolution; Phylogenetics; Polyploidy

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BRASSICACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY;

BAYES THEOREM; BRASSICACEAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PLANT; PHYLOGENY;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICACEAE;

EID: 57849109041     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn223     Document Type: Article

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